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Planning Gateway One - How we assess planning applications

How we assess planning applications

The content in this section is provided by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)1

  1. https://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htm
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This section explains how HSE assesses planning applications, including:

  • The standards and guidance HSE assess planning applications against,
  • the range of planning application documents that are typically used and information about how HSE use them,
  • the level of detail in different planning applications and what this means for HSE’s assessment,
  • how HSE reports its advice to LPAs, and
  • the timescales involved

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